[Cove Thread]

I wouldna imagine anyone at the club would be happy looking on watching the fitba product at the moment but we are where we are and need to get to the end of the season and THEN have thorough review of where we are going. Not convinced sacking the manager is the answer and probably lines me for some bile from everyone’s least favourite Cove troll who seems to be taking a break from wishing people dead. Maybe everyone knows who he is now ‍. 

[Cove Thread]

8 hours ago, BigBry1922 said:

To my fellow Cove fans, it’s alright to be disappointed in the performances, it’s okay to be critical of the board, but what I would say is don’t stoop to this guys levels.  Makes me embarrassed to be a Cove fan, I know I will be at the game tomorrow and he will be at home waiting to see the full time result with a full script of shite as usual.

 

But since he’s purging his post history at the moment I am glad I got a screenshot of this at the time.  Don’t be this guy.

I’m led to believe the club and directors are more than aware of who this person is, they have a long history of posting with false names and a similar theme of nasty personal attacks against club directors, volunteers, and perhaps worst of all our own fans who were assaulted at Airdrie through absolutely nae fault of their own. It’s not gone unnoticed for the best part of 4 years now. It generally is ignored for what it is. The collective Cove Rangers family who get pleasure and enjoyment from watching 22 loons kick a fitba aboot for 90 minutes can only urge the individual to seek professional help for what clearly is a very unhealthy obsession with our manager, his family and anyone else connected to the running of the club. 

[Accies VS Cove]

11 hours ago, BigBry1922 said:

Between your miserable tirades and wishing death on the manager I think I would rather shit in my hands and clap.

Here here! If it isn’t wishing injuries on a young player who moved his family up to Aberdeen to further his career it’s wishing death on other human beings or crude personal insults. How lovely. It’s the same individual who was on Facebook and they seemed to have found a new home on here. I’m told the club is aware of who it is and like we should do, chooses to ignore it for the trash it is. Have an opinion sure, but when it’s about wishing harm on others it kinda takes it to a different level. 

[Cove Thread]

2 hours ago, Midweek-away-to-Lossie said:

Why should the criticism be sugar coated?  These people display seriously toxic behaviour so don't deserve any respect, it's something that's earned!  In terms of some of the absolute cart horses that keep getting signed, it's football.  I concede it isn't really their fault they aren't good enough, I mean if someone offered to pay me more than I'm worth to do a job I'm not very good at of course I'm going to say yes.

I don't think anyone knows what's going on at the club though, that's the issue.  North Korea's propaganda machine is less secretive than Balmoral!  The fact is the board view the fans with contempt, ask them behind closed doors their thoughts!  Given we have someone of Richard Gordon's expertise on board, how can our media and comms be so poor unless the club are actively avoiding making improvements?  The only benefit nowadays is not having to read Charlie Allan massacre the post-match report with speeling mistacks and downright delusion! (yes mi splling mistkes are a piss take of huw bad the reports were).

"most of the directors"... there's your issue!  It's just their own private jolly and fans are an inconvenience, the entire matchday is centred around corporate.  Surely the people who "love" the club can see how bad the match day experience is or do the blinkers go on because it's outwith the stand so doesn't matter?  Why would you want to attract youngsters in though and the next generation of fans when you repeatedly appoint a man with a proven record of not only failing to give youth a chance but also closing youth setups?  They are doing nothing to improve the "small fan" base and the simple fact is the clique actually deter people from getting involved - I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than volunteer anymore, I'm not alone in this view either.  It's pretty poor when you need to rely on another club to make your pitch playable when it snows... one a couple of divisions below you at that!  But I guess unlike another club who have a plastic pitch, at least we managed to get ours playable so credit for that.

Nobody has said it's a crime to sponsor more than one club?  Why aren't ACE (or more specifically their MD) involved at Pittodrie now?  Easy to go to a smaller club and throw your weight around with other like minded enough to be on their ego trip.

If Hartley is given another 3-4 seasons to oversee recruitment as we transition fully to full-time then there will be no need for it, we'll be back to visiting Lossie midweek again and not in a cup!  Hartley wanted full-time, so Hartley gets full-time!  If he told the board to jump off a cliff would they do it?  There's plenty of part-time players that could easily come in and improve our current squad, but someone doesn't want part-time and someone refuses to recruit out with the Central Belt!  I wonder how many more old pals acts will be carried out this month with signings...

Players coming to Cove may not have been on big wages through the club, but given the connections that the board have you can bet they were seen alright with the post football careers they settled on.  Again, you can't blame the players for that... you can ask the question over which clown sanctioned 3 year deals for Vigurs and Draper though as they would have fallen into this category.

The entire product from the club has frankly been shit for a number of seasons, ignoring corporate because they need that income to survive.  You can only blame covid so much, you can only blame the big bad nasty neighbour down at the beach so much.  There's a point where you need to start looking in the mirror.  The footballing product specifically has been awful under Hartley, the up turn in form coincided with Fraser's return to the team and it wasn't really a surprise given he could still be playing at a higher level if he wanted.  There were a number of games that could have finished different during that run which would see us nearer the bottom.  If it wasn't for Burrell we would 100% be in a relegation battle.

We all know why McIntyre was sacked and it wasn't due to results, if it was Hartley wouldn't have seen the end of the season - we can ignore that he shouldn't have seen any of the season for a start after walking out!  Tell me Hartley isn't in his position due to the bully that is Sheran?  Hartley is nothing more than a bully himself, so he'll fit in well with his in-laws!  Now that the vast majority of the squad he inherited has moved on, it'll just be a downward trajectory until he is gone.  After all it wasn't his players that got the team promoted through the leagues, it was those of his father-in-law.

Can there be anything more toxic than wishing continued injury on a young player (Josh Kerr) as you did in a previous post? Ive no real beef with your criticism of the board as the club can be a bit insular at times and it does all feel it’s an oil industry jolly, but it’s the exact same at other local clubs so you need to get over that It seems deeply personal and unhealthy.

[Cove Thread]

Some fairly personal criticism of the board and sponsors etc from a few individuals who know very little about what’s really going on at the club or know the individuals they are talking about. Most Cove fans who travel home and away are aware that most of the directors are there for the love of the club and have been since the HL days. Clubs with a small fan base and a collection of volunteers to run the stadium will form a clique! It’s just natural but it seems to wind up a few individuals. It’s also not a crime to sponsor several clubs at different levels as those who remember Bon Accord Glass will know. As some of the more rational fans have pointed out, securing full time players who are at a level of the part time ones we have been fortunate to attract or who have been here since the HL is simply not possible. It could be 3-4 seasons before the whole hybrid to full time beds in but the ambition of Championship football is there and that can only be sustained at a FT level. That won’t be acceptable to the trolls mind you.  Players winding down their careers have come to Cove but it’s never been on ‘big money’ most already had settled on a career out of football. Personally speaking the football product hasn’t been consistent this season and the reliance on one player who is head and shoulders above anyone else is telling when that individual is injured. He will be extremely difficult to replace and I suspect the progress is probably one position in the league lower than it could be or wanted to be at this stage, but everyone knew Falkirk were strong with some very talented younger players who will go onto top level football. Third place and a decent chance of the playoffs at this stage in the grander scheme of things is acceptable. I don’t defend them blindly, I seriously questioned the sacking of Jim McIntyre and the development of younger players under the current manager but the way some of our ‘fans’ go on they really need to start following another club! Shouting for a new manager every 5 minutes or abusing club officials isn’t going to bring stability to a club who needs to consolidate its position, grow the fanbase and become less reliant on directors. 

 

[Falkirk v Burrell]

11 minutes ago, Blame Me said:

What a silly question 

I know. Silly me 

[Falkirk v Burrell]

1 hour ago, Midweek-away-to-Lossie said:

He learns f**k all, that’s the issue. But the failed council leader and her bum chums from the clique will still be out with the Hartley masks rimming his greasey arse hole as usual!

Were you there tonight? If you are a fan we can actually do without you. 
 

 

 

[Falkirk v Burrell]

37 minutes ago, Midweek-away-to-Lossie said:

Cobban (the owner of our sponsor, ACE) will be gone as soon as he can fit his fat carcass in the door of another local club who'll tolerate his behaviour where he gets to be billy big balls.  I'm sure a falling out is due with him, that's why after all he stopped his involvement with Aberdeen.

That’s offensive.